Books: Whodunit?

THE MURDER OF THE MAN WHO WAS "SHAKESPEARE" (232 pp.)Calvin
HoffmanJulian Messner ($3.95).

Did William Shakespeare write the works of William Shakespeare? Charles
Dickens was positively jumpy about the problem: "The life of William
Shakespeare is a fine mystery," he wrote, "and I tremble every day lest
something should turn up." Among those who have gone further and
insisted that William Shakespeare was a mere pen name are men as
different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he
rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell
Holmes. In...